Ep 18: Desiree Burch
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This week's guest is comedian Desiree Burch – star of Netflix's upcoming 'Flinch'. The podcast gets hacked, Desiree knows the way to James's heart, and we find out what's in the dream restaurant's bathroom.
Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography) and Amy Browne (illustrations)
Desiree Burch stars in 'Flinch' which comes to Netflix soon, and she has a new special on Comedy Central in the near future.
Ed Gamble records his special at the Leicester Square Theatre on 12 May. See the Leicester Square Theatre website for details.
Ed also plays the Hackney Comedy Experience with Josh Widdicombe, Suzi Ruffell and more on 11 April. See the Plosive website for details.
James Acaster is on tour. See his website for full details.
James’s TV show ‘Hypothetical’ is on Dave, Wednesdays, 10pm.
Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello listeners of the off menu podcast. It is Ed Gamble here from the off menu podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I have a very exciting announcement. I have written my first ever book. I am absolutely |
| 0:12.1 | over the moon to announce this. I'm very, very proud of it. Of course, what else could |
| 0:16.7 | I write a book about? But food. My book is all about food. My life in food. How greedy |
| 0:22.2 | I am. What a greedy little boy I was. What a greedy adult I am. I think it's very funny. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm very proud of it. The book is called Glutton, the multicore's life of a very greedy boy. |
| 0:32.4 | And it's coming out this October, but it is available to pre-order now, wherever you |
| 0:38.0 | pre-order books from. And if you like my signature, I've done some signed copies, which are exclusively |
| 0:44.8 | available from Waterstones. But go and pre-order your copy of Glutton, the multicore's life |
| 0:49.9 | of the very greedy boy. Now, please. |
| 1:05.9 | Oh boy. Is that some tummies rumbling that I hear? I think it is Ed. It must be time |
| 1:12.7 | for the off menu podcast. Well, to listen, my name is James A. Castor. And my name is |
| 1:17.8 | Ed Gamble. We've got another guest coming in to do their dream meal. Very exciting. Very |
| 1:23.3 | exciting. They build their lovely dream meal. And we've had some food sent to us. Haven't |
| 1:27.0 | we, Ed, that we're going to fill me with joy that people have sent some stuff in for |
| 1:32.6 | us to try so much stuff. Firstly, the legendary rib man. Yes. The rib man, as he's known, |
| 1:38.8 | he's sort of a bit of a legend amongst the street food. Yeah. The street food community. |
| 1:43.9 | He's been doing sort of rib stuff for quite a while. He sent some of his bacon holy fuck |
| 1:49.1 | sauce. Oh, yes. It's absolutely tasty. I'll be honest, this is your little bottle here. |
| 1:54.6 | He also sent another little bottle and a big bottle. And sorry, sorry to say that I've |
| 1:59.6 | really finished the big bottle. It's very spicy, but there's bacon flavor that hits you |
| 2:04.5 | first and then the spice is absolutely delicious, cracking that open. I mean, smells, smells, smells |
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